Not a single source - tracking down all the various federal and state programs, along with the analytics for various charities and crowdfunding was and remains a complicated slog. But there's a better source for the corporate pledged donations than that WaPo piece from a couple years ago: https://dc.claremont.org/blm-funding-database/
Innumerable studies have shown that certainty of negative consequences for bad behavior deters better than severity of the consequences.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, perhaps the greatest liberal thinker of the 20th Century, was prophetic. By every measure, life outcomes are better when two parents are in the home of the infant/toddler. When corrected for number of parents in the child's home, nearly all traces of black/white achievement gaps disappear. This dispels the myth that white racism restricts black achievement. There remains a small gap, and I'm happy to accept that it is due to racism.
“The State Of the Black Family” - link in Glenn’s post is worth reading. It is a book title. A year ago, I coined a phrase “In the back of the marriage line”, as I contemplated young candidates standing in a rank-ordered line to marry the 22-year old daughter and son of a PhD Biologist/scientist colleague from undergrad. Ideally, parents want their children to be first in marriage line. My concept is about parents competing with other parents, youth competing with other youth; but most importantly the individual competing with himself. At age 22, I would have been in the middle of marriage line. At age 35, in the first 20% of line. Today, I could stand among the top 4% in marriage line if my colleague’s 22-year old children want to marry grandpa-Hepworth. They could help me with my cane, double-check batteries in my hearing aid, increase the font-size on my computer and keep young kids off my lawn. I want every 22-year old to have the knowledge/skills that I have at age 56.
Yes to carrot + stick. My next comment is not about guns. 30 years ago - pedestrians getting jay-walking tickets at level 1 would see fine jump upward to level 2 if not paid within a very short time period and then if unpaid, ascend to severity level 3 - warrant for arrest. This problem belongs to category of “In jail for traffic tickets.” On the other hand, tickets need to be paid. I want to fire the far left and far right, so that we middle people can make non-extreme policy.
Little hope for change, until or unless, gangsta culture morphs to affirm different fundamental values. Given the current collection of cultural leaders, I think that is highly unlikely. Not all chronic problems can change. As Marx noted, 'the tradition of all past generations, weighs like an alp on the brain of the living.'
Focused deterrence may not be the panacea that is suggested.
Meta studies have shown that the level of effectiveness demonstrated in previous studies have been likely overstated. Beyond the questionable effect sizes and the collateral impacts in impacted communities, there are cities and counties where focused deterrence shows no evidence of efficacy, such as Ocala, Florida, Newark, New Jersey, and Montgomery County, Maryland.
In many cases, the social services parts of deterrence programs are dropped. The result goes back to mass incarceration.
As for “Liberals have no solutions”, again an except from the Slate article
The House of Umoja in Philadelphia is one case of a community-led effort that received a fraction of the attention and financial support as focused deterrence-based programs. As political scientist Vesla M. Weaver noted, a decade after its implementation in 1968 “Umoja was serving 400 boys from 73 different gangs, and gang-related deaths had fallen from 40 a year to just one in 1978.” But government funding streams largely bypassed Black-led community groups like House of Umoja for law enforcement efforts and organizations. The House of Umoja is still engaged in anti-violence work, but the scope and possibilities of care-centered, community based initiatives like it have been greatly hamstrung by the increasing reliance on, and investments in, policing and prisons.
The problem is that government funding in the 60's did *not* bypass "black-led community groups," but whether for reasons of incompetence or corruption, the money usually went to grifters, con-artists, or wild-eyed radicals. At Mayor Lindsay's invitation, the Ford Foundation funded "black-led community groups" which morphed and coalesced into things like the brutish and racist "African-American Teachers Association," engendering wide-spread violence by black "activists" and undisciplined students against white students, teachers, and administrators in the NYC public school system, and against whites generally in neighborhoods which black radicals assumed to be "theirs."
Similarly, in the most recent racial contretemps (2014-present) there has been a truly massive amount of money - at least a hundred billion dollars in 2020 alone - from governments, corporations, foundations, and private donors sloshing around and trying to find pro-black things to do. Yet once again, it has overwhelmingly either disappeared into the pockets of "community activists" and their families, gone to radical and counterproductive causes (e.g. bail funds for violent criminals and rioters), or otherwise failed to make a noticeable positive impact.
There are many black people who are honest and sincere in their desire to help their co-ethnics. Some of them may even be effective in working towards those goals. But there is no reason to think that current progressive discourse is able to reliably identify and drive attention and money towards such people. Instead, what is selected for is reliably (1) media-savvy, (2) the ability to reflect the prejudices and self-hatreds of progressive whites themselves, and (3) conformance to a 60's-inflected ideal of what a "radical black" should look and sound like which has a half-century's track-record of being wrong about nearly everything, and ruining everything it touches.
Urban violence researcher here. Gun control advocates’ relentless focus on banning assault weapons has shifted focus away from inner city violence, which is mostly perpetrated with semi automatic handguns. The vast majority of mass shootings are also not committed with assault weapons! I have a free Substack where I analyze homicides & shootings in over 1000 cities. Please check it out. I have maps! https://open.substack.com/pub/1000citiesproject/p/mass-shootings-in-the-us-with-and?r=d65gn&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Do you have a breakdown according to race? In the past I've seen data where if you removed the the black on others shootings it would drop the American shooting homicide rate from 3rd worldwide to 183rd. Thanks for posting your data.
This is widely known, so my research is focused on adding information about city level trends. But you can read more about the racial breakdown lots of places.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna79916
Good luck. Previously the only thing that I've seen slow this down was stop and frisk, 3 strike laws, and shootouts. (Watts and Compton area, 1992 and after.)
All of these solutions have become unfashionable.
Progressives and the media prefer midnight basketball, talking therapy or better yet, a blind eye. Currently, this is a good as it gets. Deal with it.
The solution is to put a cop on every street corner for 6 months to 2 years. I think it was the liberal Stephen Pinker that recommended exactly that. It's essentially what New York did under Giuliani. Although, I don't support the stop in frisk policy.
Hiring a bunch of people at the same time for any job rarely turns out well. Especially if you have to lower the standards.
However bringing some from elsewhere might show some promise. Might I suggest some police and rules from Singapore? A very civilized,urban multicultural, society.
We could start a small pilot project with the New York subway. As over 400,000 jump the turnstiles daily without paying and several make the traveling unsanitary and dangerous. We would insist the Singapore police provide their own rattan canes. Immediately it would give new meaning to those rap lyrics, "clap those cheeks."
We could also bring some of the police from El Salvador to run Rikers Island. They appear to have a system, consisting of nose to culo group hug while in their boxers that has a calming effect on the prisoners.
Looks progressive to me. Let's give these alternatives a chance.
Let's get the police with dogs to the white college campuses and white neighborhoods to increase white felons and imprisonment. Then whip your ass with a cane until it profusely bleeds. Pookie and ray-ray will have sloppy seconds. 😂🤣😅
Not a single source - tracking down all the various federal and state programs, along with the analytics for various charities and crowdfunding was and remains a complicated slog. But there's a better source for the corporate pledged donations than that WaPo piece from a couple years ago: https://dc.claremont.org/blm-funding-database/
Innumerable studies have shown that certainty of negative consequences for bad behavior deters better than severity of the consequences.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, perhaps the greatest liberal thinker of the 20th Century, was prophetic. By every measure, life outcomes are better when two parents are in the home of the infant/toddler. When corrected for number of parents in the child's home, nearly all traces of black/white achievement gaps disappear. This dispels the myth that white racism restricts black achievement. There remains a small gap, and I'm happy to accept that it is due to racism.
“The State Of the Black Family” - link in Glenn’s post is worth reading. It is a book title. A year ago, I coined a phrase “In the back of the marriage line”, as I contemplated young candidates standing in a rank-ordered line to marry the 22-year old daughter and son of a PhD Biologist/scientist colleague from undergrad. Ideally, parents want their children to be first in marriage line. My concept is about parents competing with other parents, youth competing with other youth; but most importantly the individual competing with himself. At age 22, I would have been in the middle of marriage line. At age 35, in the first 20% of line. Today, I could stand among the top 4% in marriage line if my colleague’s 22-year old children want to marry grandpa-Hepworth. They could help me with my cane, double-check batteries in my hearing aid, increase the font-size on my computer and keep young kids off my lawn. I want every 22-year old to have the knowledge/skills that I have at age 56.
Yes to carrot + stick. My next comment is not about guns. 30 years ago - pedestrians getting jay-walking tickets at level 1 would see fine jump upward to level 2 if not paid within a very short time period and then if unpaid, ascend to severity level 3 - warrant for arrest. This problem belongs to category of “In jail for traffic tickets.” On the other hand, tickets need to be paid. I want to fire the far left and far right, so that we middle people can make non-extreme policy.
Little hope for change, until or unless, gangsta culture morphs to affirm different fundamental values. Given the current collection of cultural leaders, I think that is highly unlikely. Not all chronic problems can change. As Marx noted, 'the tradition of all past generations, weighs like an alp on the brain of the living.'
I’ve been arounds guns all my life and I’ve never encountered a violent one. A people problem will never be solved talking about a thing.
Focused deterrence may not be the panacea that is suggested.
Meta studies have shown that the level of effectiveness demonstrated in previous studies have been likely overstated. Beyond the questionable effect sizes and the collateral impacts in impacted communities, there are cities and counties where focused deterrence shows no evidence of efficacy, such as Ocala, Florida, Newark, New Jersey, and Montgomery County, Maryland.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/focused-deterrence-police-strategy-just-like-mass-incarceration.html
In many cases, the social services parts of deterrence programs are dropped. The result goes back to mass incarceration.
As for “Liberals have no solutions”, again an except from the Slate article
The House of Umoja in Philadelphia is one case of a community-led effort that received a fraction of the attention and financial support as focused deterrence-based programs. As political scientist Vesla M. Weaver noted, a decade after its implementation in 1968 “Umoja was serving 400 boys from 73 different gangs, and gang-related deaths had fallen from 40 a year to just one in 1978.” But government funding streams largely bypassed Black-led community groups like House of Umoja for law enforcement efforts and organizations. The House of Umoja is still engaged in anti-violence work, but the scope and possibilities of care-centered, community based initiatives like it have been greatly hamstrung by the increasing reliance on, and investments in, policing and prisons.
The problem is that government funding in the 60's did *not* bypass "black-led community groups," but whether for reasons of incompetence or corruption, the money usually went to grifters, con-artists, or wild-eyed radicals. At Mayor Lindsay's invitation, the Ford Foundation funded "black-led community groups" which morphed and coalesced into things like the brutish and racist "African-American Teachers Association," engendering wide-spread violence by black "activists" and undisciplined students against white students, teachers, and administrators in the NYC public school system, and against whites generally in neighborhoods which black radicals assumed to be "theirs."
Similarly, in the most recent racial contretemps (2014-present) there has been a truly massive amount of money - at least a hundred billion dollars in 2020 alone - from governments, corporations, foundations, and private donors sloshing around and trying to find pro-black things to do. Yet once again, it has overwhelmingly either disappeared into the pockets of "community activists" and their families, gone to radical and counterproductive causes (e.g. bail funds for violent criminals and rioters), or otherwise failed to make a noticeable positive impact.
There are many black people who are honest and sincere in their desire to help their co-ethnics. Some of them may even be effective in working towards those goals. But there is no reason to think that current progressive discourse is able to reliably identify and drive attention and money towards such people. Instead, what is selected for is reliably (1) media-savvy, (2) the ability to reflect the prejudices and self-hatreds of progressive whites themselves, and (3) conformance to a 60's-inflected ideal of what a "radical black" should look and sound like which has a half-century's track-record of being wrong about nearly everything, and ruining everything it touches.
Do you have a source for the $100 B figure
I know $50 B was pledged by corporations, but many corporations will not release what was actually spent
Funds devoted to Black home ownership wound up in white hands because of the way banks wrote the rules
Most of the pledged funds hasn’t materialized
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/george-floyd-corporate-america-racial-justice/
Urban violence researcher here. Gun control advocates’ relentless focus on banning assault weapons has shifted focus away from inner city violence, which is mostly perpetrated with semi automatic handguns. The vast majority of mass shootings are also not committed with assault weapons! I have a free Substack where I analyze homicides & shootings in over 1000 cities. Please check it out. I have maps! https://open.substack.com/pub/1000citiesproject/p/mass-shootings-in-the-us-with-and?r=d65gn&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Do you have a breakdown according to race? In the past I've seen data where if you removed the the black on others shootings it would drop the American shooting homicide rate from 3rd worldwide to 183rd. Thanks for posting your data.
Here: https://giffords.org/lawcenter/memo/gun-violence-in-black-communities/
Crap source. Others are decent.
This is widely known, so my research is focused on adding information about city level trends. But you can read more about the racial breakdown lots of places.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna79916
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/firearms-death-rate-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
"Gun" violence. C'mon, Glenn...
More Ike Sun violence from the Sunman.
Agree that the distinction is unhelpful and distracts from the root issue, which is just plain violence.
Good luck. Previously the only thing that I've seen slow this down was stop and frisk, 3 strike laws, and shootouts. (Watts and Compton area, 1992 and after.)
All of these solutions have become unfashionable.
Progressives and the media prefer midnight basketball, talking therapy or better yet, a blind eye. Currently, this is a good as it gets. Deal with it.
The solution is to put a cop on every street corner for 6 months to 2 years. I think it was the liberal Stephen Pinker that recommended exactly that. It's essentially what New York did under Giuliani. Although, I don't support the stop in frisk policy.
Would you want your kids to sign up for that job?
Oh hell no.
Imagine an Aryan Brotherhood prison gang member taking your manhood and turning you into drug mule and a trick for pleasure? 😂🤣😅
I signed up for a job to insure that apex predators wouldn't breached the perimeter to sodomize, rob, and murder you or your love ones. 😉
Nope. You'd have to pay people quite a bit. It wouldn't be as bad if they hired tons of cops at the same time, or brought some in from elsewhere.
Hiring a bunch of people at the same time for any job rarely turns out well. Especially if you have to lower the standards.
However bringing some from elsewhere might show some promise. Might I suggest some police and rules from Singapore? A very civilized,urban multicultural, society.
We could start a small pilot project with the New York subway. As over 400,000 jump the turnstiles daily without paying and several make the traveling unsanitary and dangerous. We would insist the Singapore police provide their own rattan canes. Immediately it would give new meaning to those rap lyrics, "clap those cheeks."
We could also bring some of the police from El Salvador to run Rikers Island. They appear to have a system, consisting of nose to culo group hug while in their boxers that has a calming effect on the prisoners.
Looks progressive to me. Let's give these alternatives a chance.
Let's get the police with dogs to the white college campuses and white neighborhoods to increase white felons and imprisonment. Then whip your ass with a cane until it profusely bleeds. Pookie and ray-ray will have sloppy seconds. 😂🤣😅